an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained, and  i would go outside 
 i  thought,  so  i smoked a pipe and got 
 dressed,   and   outside  the  rain  had 
 turned  into snow so thick  that it  was 
 as  dense fog ... and then i went to get 
 the mail, but there was  a woman and  we 
 talked a little.  now because i was high 
 and  it was snowing  so funny  and i had 
 an  umbrella against the  snow, but snow 
 all over my  face anyway, and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life